Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 4

Didisheim Goldshmidt - Le Jongleur Didisheim Goldshmidt, Fils & Cie., Swiss, ?Le Jongleur?, No. 58247. Made circa 1920. Fine and unusual digital automaton table timepiece. To be sold without reserve

C. Gilt bronze framed painting, silvered gallery with cast formal decoration, malachite side pieces, standing on a rectangular yellow marble base. D. Featuring a seated Chinese figure juggling with a playing card in one hand and an egg in the other, disclosing the apertures for the digital hours and minutes when depressing the button at the top. M. 19???, brass three-quarter plate with going barrel, 2 jewels, pin pallet Roskopf escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, blued steel flat balance spring. Case and movement signed. Dim. 105 x 75 mm.